[BRLTTY] Trouble installing the latest version

[Amanda Lacy]

> It looks like you aren't running brltty as root. Please give that a try.

That works! But why might I need to run as root now, when I didn't
need to do so with 5.2?

On 7/18/16, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/18 at 14:34 -0500]
>
>>It's a huge log file.
>
> Yes, it's huge! It didn't make it through to the list (due to its size) but
> I
> have it.
>
>>It appears that brltty tries to access certain
>>files e.g. USB and screen drivers and fails because it doesn't have
>>permission. Why might this happen?
>
> It looks like you aren't running brltty as root. Please give that a try.
>
> For the benefit of the curious, the permission failures include devices
> under
> /dev/usb/bus/ as well as the /dev/vcsa* devices.
>
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